Re: Query about existence of way to free up unnecessary RAM usage
On Tue, 9 Sep 2014 21:51:35 +0200
Bzzzz <lazyvirus@gmx.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 03:30:40 +0800
> Bret Busby <bret.busby@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Alright, then; it is doing token swapping - with 99% of 16GB memory
> > usage, and, swapping only 4% of (about) 40GB swap capacity, you
> > can't seriously tell me that the swapping is working as it should
> > be.
>
> Anyway, a swap of 40GB is too much for a RAM of 16GB (should be
> around 16-20GB), unless you perform operations that generates
> a lot of intermediary results).
The reason I agree with you is that if you need to swap anywhere near
40GB of swap, your computer will be crawling to the point where you
might as well abort the guilty program (if you can navigate to do so),
or reboot the compute.
That said, I just found out my swap partition is 44GB for a 16GB
semiconductor RAM.
SteveT
Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance
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